belong (to v

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1987
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/8408

belong v The outport Newfoundlander, always in intimate contact with other living beings, knew them for what they were-- kith and kin. This was not conscious knowledge. It was _felt_ knowledge; an unspoked, inner comprehension which en abled the fisherman working his hand line from a tiny dory adrift in the grey immensity of the North Atlantic to know and to draw strength from the knowledge that he belonged to a living world around, under, and above him. _Belonged_. It is a key word in the lexicon and in the natural philosophy of / people who have not yet cast themselves out from the community of life. A Newfoundlander does not ask (or did not ask) where you _come_ from--he asks where and to what do y_ou belong. PRINTED ITEM belong (to v [Wordy, but can be used selectively at DNE belong v 2, 1975 cite] Farley Mowat G. M. Story DEC. 7 1987 WK Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 2 Not used 'felt', 'Belonged', 'come', and 'belong' are respectively underlined on lines three, eight, eleven, and twelve of quote.